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Nintendo had lots of news for us at the Tokyo Game Show recently. First of all, as promised, an old franchise came back: Punch Out!

Other games announced where Pikmin, Another Code, Sin & Punishment 2 and Dynasty Warriors.

In other news from Nintendo they have finnally addressed the memory problem of the Wii and have announced that as of January 2009 (worldwide?) the Wii will get the capability to save downloaded content to SD memory cards! I hope when they say “save” they also mean use it from the SD cards directly without having to do some “shuffling” of the data every time you want to play a game from a SD card.

The last piece of “big” (but anticipated) news was the new DSi which will feature two cameras and be 12% thinner than the old DS lite but at the same time having a 17% larger display! To bad I recently bought a DS lite eh? As with the Wii the DSi will get an on-line shop where additionall content can be bought.

I will be standing in line for Punch Out!

EDIT:

I found a nice complete list of games announced for Wii that I also include here:

2008

Wii Music (Nintendo) – 16th October

Animal Crossing: City Folk (Nintendo) – 20th November

The Melancholy of Haruhi (Kadokawa Shoten) – 27th November

Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes (Capcom) – 11th December

428 (Sega) – 4th December

Samba de Amigo (Sega) – 11th December

Let’s Tap (Sega) – December

Cooking Mama 2 (Taito) – 4th December

Rygar: Muscle Impact (Tecmo) – December

Guitar Hero: Aerosmith (Activision) – 16th October

Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) – 18th December

Sky Crawlers (Bandai-Namco) – 16th October

Happy Dance Collection (Bandai-Namco) – 23rd October

Family Ski: World Ski & Snowboard (Bandai-Namco) – 13th November

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (Bandai-Namco) – 4th December

Taiko Drum Master Wii (Bandai-Namco) – 11th December

Tenchu 4 (From Software) – 23rd October

Harvest Moon: Exciting Animal March (Marvelous) – 30th October

Rune Factory Frontier (Marvelous) – 27th November

Shape Boxing (Rocket Co.) – 30th October

2009

Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) – spring

Start w/ 100 Conversations! English Conversation (Nintendo) – 2009

Punch-Out!! (Nintendo) – 2009

Trace Memory: R, Gateway of Memory (Nintendo) – 2009

Kensax (Nintendo) – 2009

Cosmic Walker (Nintendo) – 2009

Spawn Smasher (Nintendo) – 2009

Dynamic [illegible] (Nintendo) – 2009

Takt of Magic (Nintendo) – 2009

Sin & Punishment 2 (Nintendo) – 2009

Forever Blue 2: Beautiful Ocean (Nintendo) – 2009

Everyone’s the Star on the NHK Red-and-White Quiz Battle (Nintendo) – 2009

Line Attack Heroes (Nintendo) – 2009

Castlevania: Judgment (Konami) – winter 2008-2009

Dead Rising: Zombies’ Sacrifice (Capcom) – winter 2008-2009

FFCC: Echoes of Time (Square-Enix) – 29th January

Sonic and the Black Knight (Sega) – spring

Fragile (Bandai-Namco) – winter 2008-2009

Arcrise Fantasia (Marvelous) – winter 2008-2009

Oboro Muramasa (Marvelous) – spring